
Helmut Schmid leaves Universal Robots
Helmut Schmid left Universal Robots on July 1. Jürgen von Hollen and Andrea Alboni have taken over his duties.
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Helmut Schmid left Universal Robots on July 1. Jürgen von Hollen and Andrea Alboni have taken over his duties.
Robot welding processes have been unprofitable in steel construction to date. This has changed with a solution in which the robot programs itself and then welds each component immediately.

On August 1, 2020, Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) will have a new CEO: the parent company Teradyne appoints Søren E. Nielsen (51) as President of the company.

Kassow Robots has added two more models to its product portfolio: the KR1805 robot arm with a reach of 1.80 m opens up new areas of application for industrial customers

Instead of scrapping inactive or older robots and leaving them unused in the production hall, existing customers can sell them to ABB via a buy-back service. The robots are reconditioned there.

With the Single Pad Gecko gripper, OnRobot is launching a compact version of the 'Gecko' gripper, which is particularly space-saving and lightweight. It is designed for three different payloads.

'Comau Mate' is the first exoskeleton with EAWS (Ergonomic Assessment Work-Sheet) certification on the market that has been proven to reduce the 'risk of biomechanical overload' of the upper limbs.
To mark the final spurt of the virtual Computer&AUTOMATION world & conference trade fair, we would like to recommend three web seminars on the topics of robotics, artificial intelligence and intelligent logistics via driverless transport systems.

AMO's measuring devices measure position values with deviations of less than 1 µm per signal period, which enables precise positioning of robot axes and thus the safe operation of cobots in close proximity to human workers.

Flexibility and health protection are the most important advantages of robotics, 80% of industrial decision-makers are certain. This is the result of the Automatica Trend Index.